Starfield: How to Color your Ship?

In Bethesda’s Starfield, players can customize their ships, like changing their parts and color. If you have been wondering how to customize your ship by changing its color, you have come to the right place. Keep reading to find out!

The game, Bethesda’s Starfield, offers its players loads of options so that players can customize their ship to better suit their personality. And honestly, given how much time you will spend on your ship if you had this option, why would you not? Now, your chip’s default design and color are already great, but what is the harm in making them more you? So, let’s see how this can be done in the game. 

How to Change Ship Color in Starfield?

One of the many great things about the game Starfield is that it offers its players the whole color wheel to select the shade they love and make their ship more unique. Each part on your ship can be edited individually so that players can have multiple colors on their ship. Moreover, for each color, you can dictate their brightness, hue, and saturation with the help of adjustable settings.

  1. To change your ship color, you need to visit any Ship Services vendor.
  2. Basically, you need access to the Ship Builder in order to color your ship.
  3. The first Ship Services vendor you will come across is on New Atlantis (Jemison).
  4. Just after getting off your ship, look to your forward-right. You will notice a Yellow Kiosk. That is the trade Kiosk where you can sell your items.
  5. Beside the Kiosk, you should notice a guy. He is the Ship Services Technician.
    Ship services - Starfield
  6. Interact with him and select, “I would like to view and modify my ships.”
  7. Press B (or whatever your Ship Builder button is) to open Ship Builder.
  8. Bring your pointer on any part of your ship and press J (or whatever your Color button is) to start coloring your ship.
    How to color ship in Starfield
  9. You will have to color every part one by one.

For ship color customization for PC, here are the controls that have to be used:

Controls  Action
Enter Accept
Q Previous Color
T Next Color
S or Down Next Control
W or Right Previous Control
D or Right  Next Value
A or Left  Previous Value
X Default

That pretty much sums up everything there is to know about how to change your ship’s color and customize it better to suit your character in Bethesda’s latest Starfield.


So, that is all on “How to Color your Ship in Starfield”. If you think this guide has helped you, then let us know in the comment section below. Also, you can check out our other guides on Starfield. Good luck.


That’s all, folks!

Last Updated on September 5, 2023

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